Covid - news and views

There was a very good documentary on BBC2 last night re the horror of Covid , and yet i read in the news today that 50 flights landed in Spain yesterday from Germany full of German holiday makers, obviously none of the passengers had watched BBC2 last night, and not just Germany, France where 40% of the population are refusing any sort of vaccination and where the President refused to lock down the country because he did not think it necessary and look at the state the country is in now, and dont get me started on Brazil, they are working 24x7 just to bury their dead, and still the President is in denial , shocking

Well let's hope we proceed with caution here then!

I see there is a bit of a stand off on covid passports, but I won't say more on that as may be deemed political. However, I do think that all Care Home workers, unless medical reasons for not, should be required to have the vaccine. IMO very wrong for people coming into contact with the residents daily to be without the vaccine. Most people in Homes have no choice but to be there, so should be able to say that anyone looking after them should be vaccinated.

Covid passports, whether people have an objection to them or not, might be the only way to travel outside of your own country in the next couple of years. I could see it causing more of an issue if they were required to go into pubs etc?

David

DEBS I think,I'm with you there. Latest seems to be that over 65's in homes not to go out, even if all from home in same minibus. So glad I don't have to plan or action policy, the law of unintended consequences runs everywhere!

I'll say little about foreign travel, but do we want folk bringing variants back before we've all been jabbed? And why is there always a lengthy delay for entering countries into the red list?

 No it's no sour grapes, we have family abroad, but I don't want them in a confined tube to come here or vice versa yet......  the plague hung around for hundreds of years, don't suppose this will be less, but we do have more knowledge and vaccine now, but it isn't a cure all. You can't take nature, wind, sea, rain, earthquakes etc and this is no different! We have to learn to live with it, but learning isn't instantaneous 🤐

That's our system. I understand lots of folks calling to ask. Don't understand why folk do it, there maybe the odd genuine need.

All communications from our practice have been really clear.

B2,

 There's a very good freezer in my camper, B2,  that's more than capable of keeping  OAZ properly cold, but I agree it would struggle to get down to minus 80 for the Pfizer version to be kept at. Altho' I seem to recall that, once unpacked and ready for use it does not need to be that cold, at least not for the lifetime it has before disposal.

We have family friends and their daughter works in a care home. She cannot have the vaccine so what do you suggest should happen to her?

I can clearly see there may be concerns but all the residents have been vaccinated so who is more at risk?

So far as Covid passports are concerned I can see that some think it’s a good idea but saw the following which is quite timely;

“More than two centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin, a US founding father, said: ‘Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither.’ His statement holds true today.”

French have given us all a masterclass in how not to handle a pandemic. The deep distrust of the political class in France doesn’t help matters.

Macron described by some of his countrymen as an ‘educated Trump’ - he might think that’s a compliment!

Interesting to hear about the test kit roll out for everyone, our adult children, due to their work have these test kits at home already.